| Thomas Gray - 1799 - 270 pages
...innocence their safety owe, Than Pow'r or Genius e'er conspir'd to bless. And Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learn'd...cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenour of their way. Yet ev'n these bones from insult to protect Some frail memorial still erected... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1800 - 302 pages
...the shrine of Luxury and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame [42]. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learn'd...cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenour of their way. [42] After this verse, in Mr. Gray's first MS. of the Poem, were the four following:—... | |
| English poetry - 1800 - 322 pages
...struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine of luxury and pride With incense kindled at the Muse's...flame. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learnt to stray; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless... | |
| Richard Lovell Edgeworth - English poetry - 1802 - 152 pages
...metaphorically) the flattery which poets offer to those who live in splen-' dour. " Fw from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learn'd...sequester'd vale of life, They kept the noiseless tenour of their way. ' ? Ignoble* — The poet justly calls the ufaal pursuits of ambition and avarice... | |
| Thomas Tovey - Agriculture - 1803 - 156 pages
...these disturbed by neither care nor strife, Enjoy'd sweet comfort each succeeding day ; * As through the cool sequester'd vale of life, ' They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.' But oh ! how chang'd, how diff'rent is the scene ! And could those happy rustics now appear,... | |
| Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1804 - 224 pages
...heap the shrine of Luxury and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame[42]. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learn'd...cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenour of their way. [42] After this verse, in Mr. Gray's first MS. of the Poem, were the four following... | |
| Robert Blair - 1804 - 132 pages
...ftruggling pangs of conscious Truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous Shame, Or heap the (brine of Luxury and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse's...flame, -*•• Far from the madding crowd's ignoble ftrife, T heir sober wishes fiever learn'd to ftray ; Along the cool sequefter'd vale of life They... | |
| E. Tomkins - 1804 - 416 pages
...struggling pangs of conscious truth to hiire. To quench the hlushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine of luxury and pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame. Far from the madding crowd's ignohle strife, Their soher wishes never Icarn'd to stray , Along the cool sequester'd vale of life... | |
| E Tomkins - 1806 - 280 pages
...struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine of luxury and pride With incense kindled at the Muse's...cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenour of their way. Yet e'en these bones from insult to protect Some frail memorial, still erected... | |
| Albin Joseph U. Hennet - 1806 - 458 pages
...struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame , Or heap the shrine of luxury and pride "With incense kindled at the muse's...never learn'd to stray ; Along the cool sequester'd Tale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Yet ev'n these bones from insult to protect... | |
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